diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 5e72ec6b..56300469 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: xml2
 Title: Parse XML
-Version: 1.2.1.9000
+Version: 1.2.2
 Authors@R: 
     c(person(given = "Hadley",
              family = "Wickham",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 10bfda54..13056a42 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-# xml2 (development version)
+# xml2 1.2.2
+
+* Export S4 classes with documentation, so they can be used in other packages
+without Warnings (@nuest, #267)
 
 # xml2 1.2.1
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index a110391f..6872c420 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ## Release summary
 
-This is a release fixes a failing test due to a behavioral change in libxml2
-2.9.9
+This is a path release fixing a minor issue in the previous release
 
 ## Test environments